skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That blog post by Mark was 100% on point. There are legitimate growth tactics, and then there are growth tactics that go over the line. Quora recognized they crossed the line on that one.

That being said, they will sell, probably by year end or early next year.
curl -sn https://api.heroku.com/apps | ruby -r json -e 'JSON.parse(STDIN.read).select{|app| app["stack"] =~ /aspen/}.each{|app| puts app["name"]}'
Not only that, but I know also many freelancers that have one personal phone/sim and one business phone/sim.
I guess you can save a lot of money not hiring texture artists.
I may have missed this somewhere along the conversation thread but would you mind to explain the process of writing the eBooks from publishing perspective?

(i.e.: the tools, the output format, what are the considerations for various devices, etc)

Do you write using a tool that can produce outputs of multiple formats or that can fit to multiple devices?
I think the argument is closer to the fact that we don't let physicians in India immediately be physicians in the US.

People writing PHP for $15 an hour in India are seen as the same level as people writing PHP (or other language) for $125 an hour in the US and Europe.
What is the fastest way to serialize and unserialize values in PHP?
Leaked iPad Mini Photos Show First Look at Black Model, 3G Support
Amusingly the hipster SV-startup is doing it even worse than the venerable expert-sexchange (on the latter you can at least scroll down to see the unblurred content).

And to add insult to injury quora-accounts are free anyway. Why do they strong-arm users into creating what will ultimately be 99,9% throwaway accounts?
I do agree. But it would be nice to know up-front what to expect with respect to security updates.
Nest 2 released
I've written my own programming language and VM, and I mostly use php for web development because it's quick, easy and gets the job done. Your theory that php developers are lazy and stupid is just nuts. You can write bad code in any language if you want to.

I think you've perhaps gotten into the trap of assuming that if a programmer doesn't use the latest cool language (Ruby, Coffeescript, etc.) they are dumb.
If you are the only investor in your thing, then is a warning sign to everyone else. You never sold anyone else on the vision, so either the idea is suspect or the investor is a not trustworthy (or capable). Having other investors mitigates those objections.
Antiflood v-1.8.2 with IP tables bash script
You're thinking of the wrong scenario. If you have 51% of the power you start mining a new block off the latest legit block but you include 0 or no "real" transactions in it. After you find one, you only compute new blocks off of _your_ "bad" last block. Since you have 51% you will control the entire blockchain from this point on. And you can basically shut down all transactions.

Note that we aren't trying to reverse any transactions or steal people's bitcoin. We are just trying to stop all transactions. This is what bitcoin is all about, so do this and you've destroyed bitcoin.
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Congratulations, Microsoft: your site looks like every other site from 2004.

Simplicity isn't a theme you can apply, it's a philosophy. Simplicity, like "minimalism", is thrown around a lot, but it starts at the core and extends outwords. It is not a re skinning.

Apple.com is simple. Google.com is simple. Microsoft.com pretends to be simple. Clearly, most of you are fooled way too easily.
wouldn't it be more like why make a coal driven steam engine when diesel models had been out for 30 years?
I'm not a homeowner - is it normal to have this many radiators in a house this size? My 2BR apartment has one thermostat and my parent's 4BR house has one as well.
This goes in an iframe on the page as an overlay.

http://tldr.io/iframe/iframe.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogmaver...
I understand that you think Intel CPUs are overpriced. I'm just saying that the market is paying those prices. So you're wrong, simply by definition.

Compared to essentially everyone else in the industry, Intel is printing money with their silicon. The only product area that comes close in price per die area that I can think of off-hand are high end FPGAs. And it's not as simple as saying they should just drop the price to sell more -- last I remember reading Intel's 22nm fabs are at capacity. They can only sell more Ultrabooks by cannibalizing sales of other parts.

Now, that will change in the future, but it hasn't happened yet.
Like Color, time for Airtime to get off the air
Ask HN: Is there room for another e-mail client?
With the demise of Sparrow (we can argue the definition of demise, yes) I find myself with no real alternative e-mail client anymore

Thunderbird doesn't work well for my work flow

Eudora is long gone.

Sometimes I go back to using Pine, Alpine, Sylpheed, Mutt.

Apple Mail is OK, more polished than it used to be but I find it slow and unstable with large amounts of Mail.

Outlook, gets better with each release, cannot handle my 12GB of mail at all, lots of continual corruption. Seems very bloated in CPU and RAM consumption although it is very full featured.

I miss Postmaster from BeOS. It was powerful, lightweight, fast.

GyazMail was pretty good, but alas very slow to make development progress.

GMail web interface works OK for me.

I know I am rambling on and on but does anyone else feel e-mail has changed from the mid-90's. It used to be exciting to receive e-mail. Now I dread my inbox and dread just how innovative e-mail has become. I have a lot of ideas on how to make e-mail fun and productive.

Does anyone else wish E-Mail and the way we interact with e-mail was different? How so?

Additional: I think e-mail is thought of as so commonplace now-a-days that nobody is innovating. Rather just keeping up with the bare minimum necessary features people expect out of e-mail.

Why can't my e-mail client automatically organize e-mails for me without me having to create filters/rules? Why can't my e-mail client help me fight SPAM versus just learning to filter it away from my view? I save a lot of mail, I have 12 years work of things that I might need to reference someday, Why can't my e-mail client prepare an overview for me of interactions I have had with people so I dont have to search and wade through e-mail to find something?

I'd like to explore this and create an app that works better for the way we use e-mail now. I can code in C++ like a rockstar but I will struggle with UI design.
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SEEKING WORK - London or remote (can also work on-site elsewhere in the EU for short assignments, say 1-2 months).

I'm a Python, R and Java developer with a background in statistics and finance. Usually I prefer to work on heavy numerical stuff (numpy, cython, R, etc..) but I can do a wide range of work including websites (Django or Flask).

Contact me at: arturmatos78@gmail.com.
> Your junior-level knowledge of web development

Lets not make personal attacks here, okay?
We still have ridiculously high engagement rate for 8% of our users, but that number hasn't gone up and nothing else we've done has managed to move the needle to get further users hooked.

This leads me to think: does the needle really have to go up? According to pg's latest awesome essay on growth, the answer seems to be yes. But as the hacker news site has shown, no can also be a valid answer. pg's goal with hacker news is to keep a high quality of discussion, and not to grow the site to more users.

As you bring in more users, you are bound to reduce engagement of existing users; this is justified if the growth is an order of magnitude higher (eg. when Facebook went from ivy leagues to colleges to high school to public). But for a site like Quora, I doubt if growth at the cost of pissing off existing users is justified at all.
I bought one and just recently sold my iPad. Everyone I know who has one loves it and everyone who comes over and uses mine now wants one.
Is Quora really struggling? My posting there is getting more and more engagement all the time (more importantly, this compete.com profile looks quite promising: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/quora.com/)

Also, how much does running Quora actually cost? If Adam D'Angelo has many Billions of dollars, I can't see them ever having a financial issue.
"The final straw was Matt Cohler joining the Board at the end of August. Matt's with Benchmark, and his involvement is there for the sole sake of getting the website turned around, on an upward trajectory, and in shape to be sold so he could get a return on his investment."

I think the italicized bit is the most interesting part of the comment. It seems that that Adam wants to sell the site at some point? but to who? Also, interesting that he is building Quora to flipped it instead of making it into a valid business.
>..or is it like MSN.com that will only work in Windows 8 and IE10

Not sure if this is sarcasm, but this is another example of of some posters on Slashdot, here and some other place who seem to have last used MS products over a decade ago, based on their knee jerk criticisms like BSoDs etc.
"We decided it was best for Charlie to step away from his day-to-day role at the company."

Whatever happened it feels like Adam wants to make the point that Charlie was essentially fired. "We" is a lovely ambiguous term. They royal "We"? I suppose it's meant to imply that Charlie also agreed. But "Best for Charlie to step away" is pretty telling. There's a whole slew of options you could use to make it sound like it was Charlie's idea (although he's probably too young to 'focus on his family'

I always thought Quora should monetize around an RFP type concept. It feels to me like 80% of users are there for technology recommendations from the horses' mouth.
Honeymoon in a mobile world may last for 5 days
Hak3r War5 : continuous edge cutting
New "Devil Worm" Is Deepest-Living Animal
Eh, it happens. Reminds me of the PG quote: "Practically all start-ups internally are disasters... and they just hide this from the outside world."
What other super stores sell groceries and guns? K-mart probably, but according to Wikipedia they only have 29 super stores.

Target doesn't sell guns/ammo, and they are the only other retail chain with super stores that I'm aware of.

Also the combo grocery store/hardware store gas station thing is pretty much dead. I'm sure you could find a few, but I've traveled extensively in rural areas, and almost every small town has a proper grocery store these days.
right. but it doesn't say how it is flashed -- perhaps it requires you to hook up via usb?

I can understand people's fear of technology when it is used for security purposes, but if someone wanted to break in, there are easier ways than flashing the base station. All someone would need to do is take a picture of your physical key and they'll be able to make an identical one.
Its fairly straightforward. There is 'money' and there is 'stock'.

Money funds day to day operations, pays salaries, power bills etc.

Stock determines ownership, and in most corporations governance.

Now day to day you spend money and ideally you also get revenue. If the revenue that comes in for any given month/quarter is more than the money going out that month/quarter then you are 'operationally cash flow positive' meaning that other than something like a big lawsuit or a promissory note coming due or some big financial event you can keep working and the lights on. It doesn't necessarily mean you can hire anyone or 'grow' or fund a PR campaign.

Then there is stock which represents ownership in the company, there can be multiple classes of stock which convey different rights, and there can be corporate bylaws which change how decisions are made while private vs public, but for the simple case we'll assume that 1 to 1, one share of stock is worth 1/(total-stock) of the company and exerts an equivalent amount of control. When you make a decision for the company you at the board level you effectively 'vote your stock' when you vote. If 50.1% of the stock votes one way that is the way the decision goes.

So lets consider a couple of scenarios:

Lets say the Company is :

1,000,000 shares
Investor A - 10% stock (100,000 shares)
Investor B - 15% stock (150,000 shares)
Investor C - 15% stock (150,000 shares)
Founder A - 25% stock (250,000 shares)
Founder B - 25% stock (250,000 shares)
(everyone else in the company) - 10% remaining stock.

Now the two founders, if they agree they can get their decisions ratified by the board with one additional investor voting with them. The 'value' of the company is price-per-share * total shares. So lets say this company was valued at $10M so each share is 'worth' $10.

Now you need more money (revenues aren't covering it) so you try to sell more stock which is going to change the numbers around. Lets say you need $10M for the next 24 months and none of the investors want to invest any more money. You've got a crisis. But if you are also independently wealthy you can say "I'll put in the $10M but I'll take 2 million shares." So the 'totals' after that transaction are 3 million shares in total (up from 1 million) and as a strict percentage we've got:

3,000,000 shares
Investor A - 3.3% stock (100,000 shares)
Investor B - 5% stock (150,000 shares)
Investor C - 5% stock (150,000 shares)
Founder A - 8.3% stock (250,000 shares)
Founder B - 75% stock (2,250,000 shares)
(everyone else in the company) - 3.3% remaining stock.

Founder B now has 'sole control' because they have enough stock to make any decision, vote their own stock, and have that decision be ratified.
I've been doing software development for over ten years without a CS degree. Yeah, I've never had a problem that linked list solved, but I suspect having a CS degree might have better prepared me to solve certain classes of problems. After 10 years, I have a deep tool chest of patterns (and anti-patterns), but early in the game, having a better algorithmic eye would have certainly been beneficial.
Apple.com is simple

To its own detriment, I find. I can never quite locate the information I'm looking for without a lot of searching, and sometimes even Google's help.
I never said you weren't helpful! I think you're being pedantic - asking for sources on everything! If you ask for a scientific opinion on why something is bad or not for you; you can come up with sources for both sides!

I'm telling you straight up, STOP being pedantic! This is a discussion forum, not a scientific peer-review!

"...all doubt I had if perhaps you were right vanished." who the hell wants to even have a reasoned conversation with you? I sure don't - I'm willing to be educated or have my mind changed but now you're both being pedantic and throwing insulting sentences into the mix COMPLETELY throwing out my desire to be educated BY YOU.

Fuck off. You're an example of what's wrong with Hacker News IMHO - this used to be a great place for conversation but its devolved heavily into a hostile discussion environment.
Under lein 2, the "lein run" task fails with the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: clojurescript-ohpointone.core

I installed the stable release of leiningen and it works fine.
What a pleasant creature. It's so cute :)
I've always thought that a good programmer job interview challenge would be to hand the candidate a laptop (preferably with their OS of choice) and have them build something simple but new. For example: "Have you ever built a web scraper in Ruby? No? Ok, Ruby's installed on this computer. Here's a CLI, a text editor, and a browser with Google open, feel free to make use of existing language resources, build me something that pulls some text off of www.example.com"

I think it's good to see how people learn new things and to see if the candidate looks for existing libraries rather than writing everything from scratch. You'd need to be able to give the candidate some time but I think it would be a valuable exercise.
Looks like a really cool product, but as a note to the marketing department: the product itself looks just a little bit too much like an iPhone. I got confused for a moment, and thought the device was an iPhone with a picture of the deadbolt on it. There's probably a way to make the materials somewhat clearer that the Lockitron is the big square bit, and not the C-shaped mounting adapter.
Blogging + RSS is interesting. Blogging - RSS isn't as much, because you need to get people to come back over and over again. And there isn't a lot of consumer adoption for RSS. "Publishing" isn't enough any more because it assumes that distribution is built in, when it just isn't.

I made my blog -- http://nowiknow.com -- into an email newsletter for this very reason. Two+ years in I'm at 80,000 subscribers. It's doable.
All depends on your financials and business model - For most consumer internet startups the path to profitability is directly tied to user growth and user engagement. If your unprofitable and your not moving those numbers up all you have is a liability from an investment standpoint.
With a quick glance:

1. There is a misspelled word in your subtitle.

2. Avoid drug references, however whimsical. Dump the capsule graphic and the word "dose." The problem? Young people won't trust you, and old people will wonder what you do in your spare time.

3. You need to summarize what you do with fewer words, so a casual visitor is almost instantly aware of your line of work.

4. Overall, you need a copy editor to rewrite the textual content of your site. There are too many badly chosen sentences and phrases.

Well, you asked. :)
This was talked about on HN before, but some of the problems/solutions mentioned about not just mobile news, but online news in general:

1. S/N (signal to noise ratio) of news aggregators.

2. Monetization: Sponsored posts? (Techmeme) Intrusive ads?

3. Mobile first: Think readability.com

4. Opportunity discovery: News to startup founders was leveraging emerging trends before others became aware of them.

5. Personalized news: I think personalization is the reason why zerply.com, dreamforge.me, vastrm.com are doing well right now.

Self-plug: I'm trying to solve the mobile news problem with http://dinopost.com but I need help. Anyone interested in working with me and applying to a future YC class with this? (Open to pivots).

Edit: Subscription box broken. Email me, addy in HN profile.
Electronic Implant Dissolves in the Body - what about threats?
Nice execution, great website, but a total waste of time and resources.
Craigslist, 3taps and APIs - Suing service providers is bad for the Web
OWASP OWTF 0.15 - The Offensive Testing Framework
Very well-written. I agree with you 100%.
The PHP bashing has gotten really old.

I too am looking forward to what this new mobile PHP project will entail.
I do mobile and PHP almost alternatively, and I don't know where it puts me in you definition. PHP is ugly, but ugliness is far from the first thing to care about when choosing a language.

Mobile is hard, but good (PHP) server side devs are not cheap or somewhat less valuable either.
They will because voice calls are on major decline. It's all about data and SMS now, sadly.
They ask your FB account to "confirm" who you are if you want to interact (view is still free for throwaway email), not just e-mail. Of course the FB account can be a throwaway as well :).
Great, thanks lutusp! It seems we need a better copy :)
You should apologize for insinuating a person's choice of a programming language is a reflection of their intelligence.

That's not what I got from the comment (though, as an aside, I do think that there is a correlation between programming smarts and language/framework choice, adjusted for circumstances.)

It sounded to me that people pick PHP for assorted reasons, one being the surrounding support environment (cheap hosting, ease of slapping together a works-ok-right-now site, ease of finding replacement devs when needed). Another reason for choosing PHP, though, is because you don't have to have serious coding chops to make practical use of it.

OTOH, mobile dev requires at least some serious coding chops, and does not have the equivalent support environment for PHP. And if you have some decent coding chops you are likely to want to use a better-designed language than PHP.
Gravity Raises $10.6M For Content Personalization And Marketing
More than Just Another Basecamp Competitor Coming Soon
If you don't mind, I would be very much interested in what the profit margin was on these sales. In addition, what was the procedure of contacting and collaborating with the manufacturers?
I would be more cautious about indexes than this article is.

The trade-off with indexes is that they make reads faster and writes slower. But if you're running a high performance application, it is not that hard to have read-only slaves to offload read queries to. (I won't say that it is trivial, because there are issues, but it is doable. I've done it.) However fixing poor write performance is much more complicated.

Therefore create all of the indexes that you need. But no more. And any indexes that are not carrying their weight should be dropped. Furthermore if you have intensive queries that you have to do (eg for reports), consider offloading those to another database.

Of course if you don't have significant data/volume/etc, then don't worry about this. Any semi-sane approach will work for you. (That applies to most of you.)
Yeah, I was expecting something on the homepage like a top 10 list of popular tl;drs that I could try out without doing anything else first.
Right now I develop csscomb.js.
I'll work on support any preprocessors.
Great idea. However, I can't help but think that if Lockitron gains meaningful adoption, the various organized-crime groups operating on the web will try to hack the company's backend retrieve lock usage and location data or even gain the ability remotely to open customer locks. (Criminals already pay for stolen credit card information on the web; they would readily pay for lock usage and location data too. How valuable would it be for thieves to know when other people in their own city leave their homes?)

I would want to understand how Lockitron might use and secure my lock-usage, location, and other personal information before using the device and service to lock anything important, like my office or my house.
Scaling the Klout API with Scala, Akka, and Play
IIRC, if you do not have central heat, then you have a radiator in every room you want heated. Each radiator is then going to have its own thermostat to control its heat level for that room.
Show HN: Open Source VR headset inspired by the Oculus Rift
The real story is their ability to condense the page down to just the essentials which was achieved by concentrating the decision power to a small, capable team, as opposed to a committee of stakeholders. Microsoft has more teams than most other companies who would all like to see their project featured on the homepage. It also has to serve a diverse set of customers who want to buy or need support for any one of their dozens of products. Next time I need to download a Windows driver or skype I'll start my search at Microsoft.com instead of Google.
Sure, but it's not closer than 3.142. You get less than one digit of bonus accuracy.
While it's refreshingly different to look at, I think that this look would get pretty tiresome after just a few week.

There's an ad agency here in Seattle called the Wexley School for Girls that has a crazy office space with an all-white room and a Chinese restaurant section, etc. Written about here:
http://www.seattleite.com/creative-spaces-unique-seattle-off...

when I walk by, I always think it would be cool to work in a place like that, but I don't think I would enjoy it, long-term.
Ruhoh is also a viable alternative to Octopress (or Wordpress for that matter). Check out my blog at http://brandonparsons.me for an example of what can be (easily) accomplished with Ruhoh.
I think the main benefit here is that it works with your existing lock, so it could work on apartments, dorm rooms, office doors, etc. Those key code deadlocks have always existed, but never very popular.